Thanks Ed Gandia for that interview for your High Income Business Writing podcast. It was a lot of fun. Readers, you are at the “demonstration project” that I talked about there. Believe me, I’ve come a long way since this MOOC News & Reviews was last active. If you’re interested in learning more about my recent work, you can visit the site of my content marketing...

Get a Grasp! A Primer Course for Getting Your Comic Started, which starts March 23, is another example of a MOOC offered by an independent organization, in this case a nonprofit called Making Comics (dotcom) devoted to developing free teaching resources. Charlie Chung from from Class Central recently spoke with Patrick Yurick, CEO of Making Comics (dotCom) and one of the instructors of Get a Grasp, to get...

Doing Journalism with Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools, which starts May 19, is an example of a growing trend of MOOCs offered by organizations outside the usual university structure, in this case under the auspices of the European Journalism Centre and featuring an international team instructors from across the commercial and non-profit publishing spectrum. Charlie Chung from from Class Central...

The video below is an interview with Professor Gilly Salmon, who has been a guest before talking about her extensive research in online education and pedagogy and what she has observed about MOOCs so far. Now, the first MOOC that she is leading is about to launch. “Carpe Diem—Learning Design” starts on March 10, and we took the opportunity to discuss some of the differences between course design for...

by John Swope In 2012 and 2013, MOOCs took root in the higher education landscape. Today, most top universities offer some sort of MOOC. In 2014, we are starting to see organizations and even individuals build MOOCs. If you’ve ever considered building your own open online class, one of the first steps is determining which MOOC platform will best suit your needs. Luckily, you can build MOOC and MOOC-ish...

by Stephen Haggard Take a multi-platform digital mash-up of content contributed and remixed by professors, institutions, publishers, students and software, and let revenue-seeking companies distribute it globally. This (partially) describes MOOCs, but it’s also a full-on recipe for trouble on MOOC copyrights and ownership. That there have been no lawsuits so far is perhaps chiefly down to the fact...

Massive Open Online Courses are currently disrupting the higher education landscape. Still, MOOC completion rates are remarkably low (normally below 10%) compared to traditional online and offline courses as shown in this data visualization developed by Katy Jordan earlier this year. Even if most research in this area is just starting, researchers, professors and MOOCs providers have already...

“You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and your free will are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.” Francis Crick, Nobel Laureate, 1962 These words mark the beginning and end of Professor Idan Segev’s outstanding course, Synapses, Neurons and Brains on Coursera. By the end of...

Get a Grasp! A Primer Course for Getting Your Comic Started, which starts March 23, is another example of a MOOC offered by an independent organization, in this case a nonprofit called Making Comics (dotcom)...